Some OpsMgr resources

I had to do some sessions this week, covering the major components that compose Microsoft Private Cloud.
That would include to become a master of SCOM 2012. To be honest, I needed some tips and guidance for some experts prior to this.

I reached out to a couple of SCOM gurus in the community last week, to get a better overview of some key concepts in the 2012 version.
I`d like to thank Pete Zeger for giving me a kick start - he is a veteran in the SCOM community, and last but not least, one of our future MVP`s in the SCOM expertise - Kevin Greene, a SCOM king who`s working hard  for the community. I knew he`d done some gigs with Aidan Finn and Damian Flynn recently, regarding a SC event in UK, and reached out to him for some insight to the APM feature in SCOM 2012.
To make a long story short, he wrote 3 major blog posts about the subject and gave me the preview of it.
Thank you Kevin! Read his superb blog posts at http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/scom-2012-configuring-application.html

Required Management Packs for the Cloud Process Pack

Required Management Packs for the Cloud Process Pack

Ok, I`ve done this a couple of times no, so I want to share it.

First you make the SCVMM/SCOM integration (http://kristiannese.blogspot.com/2011/12/integrate-scvmm-2012-with-scom-2012.html ) and import all the required management packs in that process.

Once this is done, you have to import several management packs into System Center Service Manager 2012 before you`re able to install the Cloud Process Pack.

Tip: Download all management packs with Operations Manager to a folder, and import the following management pack to Service Manager 2012:

·         Microsoft.SQLServer.Library.mp

·         Microsoft.SQLServer.2008.Monitoring.mp

·         Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2003.mp

·         Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.2008.mp

·         Microsoft.Windows.InternetInformationServices.CommonLibrary.mp

·         Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.Discovery.mp

·         Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.Monitoring.mp

It`s important that you import those MP`s above prior to the MP`s below, since many of them have these as requirements

In Service Manager 2012, import all the management packs from these locations:

·         From your SCVMM install: %Programfiles%\Microsoft System Center 2012\Virtual Machine Manager\ManagementPacks

·         From your Service Manager 2012 install: %Programfiles%\Microsoft System Center 2012\Service Manager 2012\Operations Manager Management Packs

·         Also from your Service Manager 2012 install: %Programfiles%\Microsoft System Center 2012\Service Manager 2012\Operations Manager 2012 Management Packs

Integrate SCVMM 2012 with SCOM 2012

You are probably already aware of the new optimization techniques in VMM 2012 – Dynamic Optimization and Power Optimization. However, you might want to integrate SCOM 2012 to monitor your VMs and enable the good old PRO for monitoring your VMs and more important (?) your Services.
If you just start to run the integration wizard, you`ll most likely end up with some error messages that indicates that several management packs are missing from your SCOM 2012 server.

So before you start, you should import the following management packs to your SCOM 2012 server.

·         Windows Server Internet Information Services 2003

·         Windows Server 2008 Internet Information Services 7

·         Windows Server Internet Information Services Library

·         SQL Server Core Library

 Actions to take with SCVMM 2012

1.       Navigate to the Settings workspace in VMM 2012

2.       Click on System Center Settings and Operations Manager Server

3.       Specify the servername of your SCOM 2012 server and the credentials that is required. You have two options here regarding the integration between SCOM and SCVMM. Enable Performance and Resource optimization (PRO) and Enable Maintenance mode integration with Operations Manager. Decide what you want and click next

4.       Specify credentials for SCOM 2012 to use to connect to this SCVMM 2012 server (Yes, I use a domain admin account in this lab)

5.       If everything runs as expected, you`ll have a successful integration

Once this is done, you`ll find some new options on your hosts groups.

I`ll cover more of the SCOM integration later this month